Settings & Options API

WordPress provides Settings API and Options API to create custom settings pages. Settings API provides benefits like visual consistency, robustness (future-proofing), and less work. Options API saves your settings options in the database.

Go through the Settings handbook page to learn the following topics.

• Custom Settings Page
• Options API
• Settings API
• Using Settings API

Coding Exercise

Go through the Settings and Options API documentation and create a admin page to store the name of the user with the following requirements:

• Create a group called “rt_options” to store your settings.
• Create a section to contain the input text field.
• Implement security measures against CSRF using nonces as well.